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Cat in the Hat

@northcarolinats.bsky.social

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Twitter refugee. Anti-fascist. Nationals, Heels, and Canes fan. UVA and W&M Law grad. Estate planning attorney. Entrepreneur. I *used to be* a piece of shit. #FreeDC

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 29d

Just a friendly reminder that Republican ghouls on the Supreme Court have been sharpening their knives for precisely this moment for the last 50+ years. Now, they’re cashing in.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29d

Every time I think I have a good handle on what a racist piece of shit William Rehnquist was, I remember something like “he would call Black college football players ‘jungle bunnies’” and I have to start over again

"Bill Rehnquist was always laughing, very fun loving. He had an affluent white family. It was the 1960s. And I definitely saw the racist side." The friend recalled attending football games with Bill and Jim Rehnquist at nearby Arizona State University. "And I specifically remember Bill Rehnquist saying more than once: 'Look at that jungle bunny run!' referring to a black player."
"I remember that phrase: 'Jungle bunnies.' The negative stuff that came out later; it all rang true. The election in '64; I have a very specific recollection when Goldwater lost. Bill Rehnquist said, 'The Democrats stuffed the ballot box.' I remember that phrase. He was passionate. An earlier memory:
I do recall that he worked at the polling places to make people pass literacy tests. It's very possible there were racial slurs then, too. That was in charac-ter." Rehnquist's activism gained him favor with one group that mattered

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 3h

Gooooooooob morning!

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 14h

🤡🎪

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.

nyti.ms

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 14h

All of this is further evidence for my hottest of takes (and sincerely held belief): all tattoos ever conceived and/or inked are stupid

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 15h

“There’s a second Graham Ratner Nazi tattoo”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

incredible post

Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 21h

Is there any evidence he’s anti-Semitic, other than a tattoo which probably most people are unaware is associated with the Waffen-SS?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20h

Donald Trump yelling with a speech bubble

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

This presidency is a heist.

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

My vote goes to whichever Democratic presidential candidate promises to demolish this monstrosity on day 1 and restore the East Wing to its previous condition

Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

Even this is too soft. It’s not a bug in the system; it’s a feature of it. You are *required* to hold these odious views to be granted admission to the club. That’s how fascism works.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2d

"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," @katierogersnyt.bsky.social writes of the Ingrassia case. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker

www.nytimes.com

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

Brought to you by Draft Kings

Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

Brought to you by Draft Kings

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 1d

how do you get arrested for playing poker with the mafia in 2025; that’s like shoplifting at a Radioshack

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

we’ve got a mafia poker ring abcnews.go.com/US/miami-hea...

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Billups was arrested in Oregon, where is expected to make an initial court appearance on Thursday, sources said.

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

In an attempt to increase my club head speed, I’ve drawn a logo onto all my golf balls depicting the thing I loathe most of all: my home state turning red, year after year, with the weird exception of the governor and the AG.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

what a fucking embarrassment

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

"UVA agrees that during the pendency of this Agreement, its president will report to the Assistant Attorney General each quarter on UVA's progress toward full compliance with the Civil Rights Laws as outlined in the guidance above." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...

Screenshot from DoJ-UVA agreement

https://federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federalinfo/files/2025-10/US-University-of-Virginia-Standstill-Agreement-20251022.pdf

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It's very simple and absolutely necessary for national security. They are going to fill the new ballroom with gold coins and Donald Trump is going to go swimming in it in a striped singlet-style bathing suit every day

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

i am reluctantly beginning to like him

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Curtis Sliwa says he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out of the NYC mayoral race and work for Andrew Cuomo.

Give me candidacy or give me death: GOP nominee holds firm in NYC mayoral race

Curtis Sliwa said he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out and work for one of his rivals.

www.politico.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who carefully constructed obfuscations in politics over the last hundred years must feel like a real dummy. Actually you can call it The Department of Murder. You can post a video of yourself dumping diarrhea on the public. You can go on TV and say "I am stealing from you lol"

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Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got a demand, but it’s a federal crime to say it out loud

Cat in the Hat @northcarolinats.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE FUCK?!

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

one of the bulwarks against these people succeeding is how stupid they all are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace

"After discovering — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want conversations to be off the record, Halligan now finds herself attempting to prosecute 2 high profile cases on the 'rocket docket.' It’s not going well."

Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace

She's bad at media, and even worse at law.

www.publicnotice.co

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

That had to hurt 😬

MAGA Fan Faceplants Hard On The Pavement After Hurling Anti-Gay Slurs At 'No Kings' Protesters

www.comicsands.com

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